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Definitions play an essential role in scientific concept formation because then the meanings of the terms may usually be presented Explication is also problematic in the context of vague terms because it presupposes that the extension of the definiendum should have sharp boundaries. The former approach, which is characteristic of explication and the principle of family resemblance, seems inappropiate in the light of the foregoing considerations. If the explication is used, then a precise and technical meaning is assigned to a term which is possibly understood vaguely or ambiguously in common usage (Carnap). www.helsinki.fi /~niskanen/definiti.html   (1586 words)

Close reading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Close reading is sometimes called explication de texte, which is the name for the similar tradition of textual interpretation in French literary study, a technique whose chief proponent was Gustave Lanson. A truly attentive close reading of a two-hundred-word poem might be thousands of words long without exhausting the possibilities for observation and insight. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Explication   (203 words)

POETRY EXPLICATION The ultimate purpose of a poetry explication is to show the meaning you as a reader brought from a poem—it is the reader’s response, with proof of how the reader arrived at that understanding. In a poetry explication, readers examine a work in as much detail as possible, line by line, or stanza by stanza, explaining each part as fully as they can and showing how the authors techniques produce their response. An explication is essentially a demonstration of a reader’s thorough understanding of the poem. www.runet.edu /~ntaylor/poetry_explication.htm   (95 words)

Poetry Explication Goal: To present an explication of a poem; explication has its root in the Latin word 'explicare', which means literally "to unfold." When we explicate a text, what we are trying to do is to unfold or unravel the author's basic meaning. Explication often offers one means of testing an interpretation, testing the theory of what a texts means against how the text is constructed. The tradition of explications of texts comes from the French 'explication de texte' and is an organized, analytical description of a literary work. www.lcc.gatech.edu /~cklestinec/Teaching/LCC2204.Explication-poetry.html   (951 words)

Peter Suber, "Explication Assignment" An explication is a miracle of conciseness made possible by intense clarity, not a simplification made possible by omission. However, almost all the faults in the explications I have seen would be remedied if the students had remembered (1) to put only one proposition in each numbered entry and (2) to put only necessary premises in the leftmost level of the outline. Explications provide a textually accurate and logically luminous reconstruction of the argument (reasons, grounds, support) that the author used to justify a conclusion. www.earlham.edu /%7Epeters/courses/explicat.htm   (1988 words)

UNC Writing Center Handout Poetry Explications A poetry explication is a relatively short analysis which describes the possible meanings and relationships of the words, images, and other small units that make up a poem. Writing an explication is an effective way for a reader to connect a poem's plot and conflicts with its structural features. The end of the explication should focus on sound effects or visual patterns as the final element of asserting an explanation. www.unc.edu /depts/wcweb/handouts/poetry-explication.html   (2677 words)

Rudolf Carnap, The Function and Design of Explications; & Boardman's Notes. The main task to be performed by an explication of an old concept or term is spelling out a rationale for why it applied in the instances where its application is continued, and why it did not apply to the instances to which it was clearly denied. Since an explication is not replacing an old concept or term with an utterly new one, but is the clarification of the old one, the explication must agree with most of the clear cut applications of the old concept. This explanation is not yet an explication; the latter may be given, for instance, by the compound expression 'sodium chloride' or the synonymous symbol 'NaCl' of the language of chemistry. www.lawrence.edu /fast/boardmaw/Carnap_Explica2.html   (5636 words)

An explication of a sample student essay in critical analysis Explication of effective writing is well-suited to helping others see what makes a working piece work because it demonstrates in action the mind of a reader who is making the sorts of moves you have to make in order to do that. In writing an explication we don’t have to confront the problems of organization that “higher forms” of exposition must solve: I just took over (followed) the organization that was already embodied in Mary’s essay. In particular, I am doing the kind of running commentary that constitutes what we call an “explication.” Notice that the order of my points there is dictated by the order in which the features commented upon unfold in the essay that is their subject. www.ksu.edu /english/baker/english320/Explication-of-an-analytical-essay.htm   (4834 words)

Critical Concepts: Explication vs. Analysis If we explicate these, we follow the order of details (sentences, rhetorical gestures, arguments) in the work under discussion. Thus we say that a lawyer tries to persuade a judge that his opponent's explication of some previous decision is mistaken -- the implications of the previous case, for the case the judge must decide today, are different from what opposing counsel represents them to be. That is, the organization of an explication, considered as a particular type of critical discourse, is taken over from the work under discussion. www.ksu.edu /english/baker/english251/cc-explication.htm   (2087 words)

English 364: Explication In general, the explication will be a direct preparation for your final exam, for one of the questions on it will be a choice of passages for you to explicate. The explication of a passage from a play is rather different from the explication of a poem, however; in a play you will want not only to consider patterns of language and meaning within the passage, but to relate it fully to its dramatic context. An explication is a very specific kind of exercise, designed to help you read and understand a text fully; it is a kind of training in literary perception where you are asked to consider a single passage in detail. www.engl.uvic.ca /Faculty/MBHomePage/engl364/explication.html   (1291 words)

Authors Discussed in our 19th-Century BritLit Web An Explication of the Passage on “The Prostitute Ann”, From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Explication of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s "The Cry of the Children" An Explication of Emily Bronte’s "The Prisoner: A Fragment" courses.wcupa.edu /fletcher/britlitweb/authors.htm   (414 words)

Poetry Explication In terms of its form, a poetry explication takes readers through the poem under discussion, explaining what the poem is about (narrative and plot), its "meaning," and the way in which poetic structure (outer form, grammar, rhythm, rhyme, and tropes) shape the relation between what the poem is about and its meaning. The poetry explication has a thesis about the poem's meaning and about the way in which the formal features of poetry—whatever makes this a poem and not just a passage of prose—contribute to that meaning. The explication is also an argument, since the "guided tour"serves to defend a particular interpretation of the poem's meaning. virtual.park.uga.edu /eng3k/spring01/assignments/poetry.htm   (1113 words)

explicate, explain, explication, explanation. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993 To explicate is to do much the same thing, but more eruditely, more elegantly; it means “to explain in the fullest, most scholarly detail,” as in She proposes to explicate several poems to her students. In the wrong setting, explicate can be pretentious; generally, you should reserve it for its specialized academic uses (but don’t bother to explicate even there when an explanation of a single point will do the trick as well). The simple, everyday verb is explain, meaning “to make understandable or clear, to give reasons, to make something plain,” as in He explained how to get therefrom here. www.bartleby.com /68/75/2375.html   (181 words)

ISPR: Presence Explication It is based on a discussion that took place via the presence-l listserv during the spring of 2000 among members of a community of scholars interested in the presence concept. The explication process will continue, and the statement will be revised accordingly, as our understanding of the concept grows; the statement was most recently updated on April 29, 2000. The statement below contains a comprehensive explication of the concept of presence. www.temple.edu /ispr/frame_explicat.htm   (1513 words)

Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy The client explicates (verbalizes) aspects of meaning which he recognizes in himself with regard to the content being processed. The deeper a client already is in his explicating process the more difficult it will be for him to stay at this level: Clients are more vulnerable to influence when they are deeper in their explicating process. CHANGE AS A FUNCTION OF A second question was whether keeping or enhancing the quality of the explication process presents different degrees of difficulty for clients in various sections of the processing mode (Sachse and Maus, 1989). www.focusing.org /sachse.html   (3015 words)

Dr An explication is a complete analysis of all important words in a passage. In a simile comparing the gas to a "green sea" the word "green" suggests an eerie light coming through the thick gas, and the word "sea" connotes an almost liquid thickness as well as the volume and spread of the deadly agent. An explication does not just tell what a work means, but how it means. users.etown.edu /m/martinlf/explication.html   (381 words)

HOW TO FIND POETRY EXPLICATION AND CRITICISM Explication is the interpretation of a literary work rather than criticism. A small number of research journals which feature serious literary criticism and explication are indexed and abstracted by the PABS database. Use the various books on poetry explication to find references to interpretations published in books and periodicals between 1925 and 1987. utm.edu /departments/acadpro/library/information_pages/docs/poetry.htm   (2029 words)

CONK! Encyclopedia: Philosophy His explication of the Natural Law, the belief that the rule of law must be rooted in the nature of the cosmos itself, held great sway in the ancient and medieval world. conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Philosophy   (4388 words)

Bertrand Russell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Perhaps Russell's most systematic, metaphysical treatment of philosophical analysis and his empiricist-centric logicism is evident in what he called Logical atomism, which is explicated in a set of lectures, "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism," which he gave in 1918. In these lectures, Russell sets forth his concept of an ideal, isomorphic language, one that would mirror the world, whereby our knowledge can be reduced to terms of atomic propositions and their truth-functional compounds. Indeed, though Russell was often characterised as the patron saint of rationality, he agreed with Hume, who said that reason ought to be subordinate to ethical considerations. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bertrand_Russell   (8345 words)

Explication of a Poem To "explicate" means, according to the Latin root, to 'unfold.' Explications interpret a poem (or other brief passage) intensely and persistently, talking carefully about the words, explaining the patterns of imagery, the meaningfulness of rhythms, the suggestiveness and power of the sounds--trying to show, in essence, how the text works. In all your later writings on other sorts of literary texts, you'll find that solid explication skills are truly valuable, forming the basis of concrete, exciting and intelligent work. Provide a brief introduction and a statement of your controlling idea, organize the body of your essay into logical subdivisions, use transitional sentences as needed, and suggest something of the wider significance of your analysis in your concluding sentences. cai.ucdavis.edu /uccp/explication.html   (255 words)

explication In writing an explication (literally, an "unfolding"), your goal is to explain the entire poem in detail, unraveling any complexities to be found in it. Your explication should proceed sequentially through the poem from the title (if there is one) to the last line. Your explication must be stapled and proofread carefully for mechanical errors, including spelling mistakes. www.people.virginia.edu /~jfs3g/enlt223/explication.html   (361 words)

201 Explication Paper Assignment Instead, I want you to explicate the poem: to unfold its meaning, explain how it is constructed, clear up its obscurities, and only then draw some conclusions. The paper may be either open- or closed-form; however, the emphasis on explication lends itself to an open-form approach, so if you are ever going to try open-form, this is a good time. You should assume your reader reads English and has a college-level vocabulary (thus you do not have to define words, unless the meaning the poet intends is not the usual one) and has a copy of the poem that they have read once. classweb.gmu.edu /rnanian/201explication.html   (1351 words)

How to Write an Explication Choose __ of the above quotations to explicate. In your explications, however, you should disregard items in the outline which clearly are not applicable to the particular quotations. In this explication, the writer has dealt with the lines in question and has not introduced extraneous materials. www.geocities.com /lrampey/2131/explicate.htm   (578 words)

Explication To explicate a poem, story, or passage of non-fiction prose is to show in detail how it works: to show how the writer has made key choices in order to achieve his or her purpose. In an explication, you explicate how the poem (or the passage of prose) achieves its purpose. Many of these excerpts from leading critics are explications: When the critic writes about how the poem works -- its structure, its word choice, its imagery, its figurative language, and/or its music -- the critic is explicating. www.tnstate.edu /JORDAN/explication.htm   (290 words)

Murray: "A Glossary, or Explication, of Terms relating to Shipbuilding", 1765. BEAMS, are the large pieces of timber, which are laid across the ship; their ends are lodged on the clamps, and being bound by knees on the side, keep the ship to her breadth. Murray: "A Glossary, or Explication, of Terms relating to Shipbuilding", 1765. Mungo Murray: A Treatise on Ship-building and Navigation in three parts wherein the Theory, Practice, and Application of all the necessary Instruments are perspicuously handled. www.bruzelius.info /Nautica/Etymology/English/Murray(1765).html   (1001 words)

explication forbbiding mourning: termpapersclub.com- a website club for term papers, essays, book reports downloads Indeed, we see in her explication and defense of feminist issues in these two pieces of writing one of the clearest examples in the Western canon that the integration of politics into an aesthetic enterprise does not have to negate its artistry but can in fact increases the artistry. Looking for a term paper on "explication forbbiding mourning?" termpapersclub.com can help you find a free term paper abstract on "explication forbbiding mourning." termpapersclub.com can provide you with 3037 free abstracts from term paper written by the best students on your subject. If you can not find a term paper on "explication forbbiding mourning", professional writers at termpapersclub.com can write you a custom term paper on explication forbbiding mourning. www.termpapersclub.com /term-papers/282704/explication-forbbiding-mourning.html   (405 words)

Holger Kersten -- Writing Papers -- Sample Essay: Explication The adjectives and verbs I have underlined in Hawthorne's description suggest the lack of substance in what Goodman Brown hears and sees; he is, after all, standing under a dark cloud. The story shows that it is but a short step from believing in the devil to being taken in by him. Main section of the explication: Text quoted in the order it appears. www.uni-magdeburg.de /hkersten/WritingPapers/papers_sample_expl.htm   (769 words)

Web Guide for Poetry Criticism Discusses poetry explication: disregard assignment at the end of the essay. Poetry Explication Example - Robert Herrick's To the Virgins to Make Much of Time, and Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress. Poetry Explication Example - The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd. www.sheltonstate.edu /library/poetrycriticism.htm   (988 words)

Essays.cc - Explication: Ballad Of Birmingham Explication: “Ballad of Birmingham” In the poem “Ballad of Birmingham”, by Dudley Randall, many different things can be analyzed. www.essays.cc /free_essays/c2/ezk180.shtml   (871 words)

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